Week in Apple: ZFS on Mac OS X, rogue tethering, DUI apps, and more

This week on Infinite Loop, we interviewed the creator of a commercial ZFS …

This week on Infinite Loop we interviewed the creator of a commercial ZFS solution for the Mac and offered a how-to on Automator and shell scripting. We also covered news about AT&T shutting down rogue tetherers, Apple's App Store lawsuit against Amazon, the open source Chameleon project, and more. Read on for the top stories of the week:

Z-410: How ZFS is slowly making its way to Mac OS X: With 20 years of experience at Apple behind him, developer Don Brady is launching a small software company to finally bring ZFS to Mac OS X. By incorporating the latest ZFS features from Open Solaris with integrated GUI support, Mac users will have access to a modern file system with integrated data integrity as early as this summer.

AT&T shames unauthorized phone tetherers, gives ultimatum: AT&T apparently has an eye on people who are tethering their smartphones to their computers without paying for it. The company has begun sending out e-mails to those users asking them to either quit or pay up, and they have until March 27 before AT&T upgrades their plans for them.

Open source Chameleon project aims to ease porting iOS apps to Mac: Plenty of developers have ported their iOS apps to the Mac, but have run into numerous UI differences that don't make sense in a desktop environment. A new open source project called Chameleon hopes to address many of these problems, making it easier to offer a quality user experience on the Mac without rewriting a ton of code.

Jacqui Cheng
Jacqui is an Editor at Large at Ars Technica, where she has spent the last eight years writing about Apple culture, gadgets, social networking, privacy, and more. Emailjacqui@arstechnica.com//Twitter@eJacqui